Archive for October, 2009

Eating Etiquette

Fun Fact: In the mall food courts here, you do NOT have to clean up after yourself. You can leave your trays on the table, and there are people who will come and bus your table. It’s pretty awesome and quite laziness-inducing. There is also no sense of personal boundaries when it comes to eating. [ READ MORE ]

Love Is In The Air

Teaching my junior high class is really great for my ego. Seriously, how could you not feel good when you have boys (read: plural with an S) professing their love for you on a daily basis. In the middle of asking a question such as “What two parts does every sentence have?”, I get answers [ READ MORE ]

Mah-La Mah-La

I had my first mala hot pot this weekend. We went to this place called 辣中間 (translation: spicy in the middle?). It’s all-you-can-eat hot pot with the choice of clear soup or mala soup to cook your food in, or in our case, you can get both. There are unlimited ingredients that you can get [ READ MORE ]

Biking

  • October 25th, 2009
  • Posted in tourist

Today was a great weather day, which we haven’t had for awhile since it is typhoon season and all. We took advantage of the breezy, partly cloudy day and went bike riding along the Keelung River by the Dazhi Bridge. You can rent bikes at these rental shops scattered all along the trail for $60NT [ READ MORE ]

Just Roll With The Punches

After the past few days, I’m feeling much better. Whew. I haven’t gotten the flu in so many years. I was pretty on top of getting vaccines in college so it had been awhile. It doesn’t make it any funner though. Anyways, today, my strength and appetitie returned, so I was able to get out [ READ MORE ]